Donald Timmonds Harrington ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: We have an application that does _a_lot_ of process handling.  A
: master process initiates sub-processes on other devices.  We also
: use a lot of message files.  Ever since going up on 5.0 push, we
: have been in situations, ocassionally, where the parent process has
: died (for whatever reason), but the child processes are still alive.
: This is seen by going into glance and looking at the session screen
: for the parent session - the parent process number has a priority of
: 0 (zero).
 
- Very strange!  Has anyone had any response center look at the problem
  in debug while it's occurring?  I've never ever seen this in any MPE
  version and also thought it ought to be impossible to happen... well,
  it's all software...  I know that :SHOWPROC does not always show all
  the processes in the process tree although you can still see them in
  debug(!).  I don't know whether it's something to do with states of
  processes are in for :SHOWPROC to display 'em...  Just interested
  if debug would show the process tree properly, whether the PIB and PIBX
  entries would reflect what the process relationships really are,
  are there truly 'orphaned' processes out there!!  I think HP should
  get to know and fix the problem asap...
 
;-) Eero - HP CSY Networking lab.